How did your MP vote on conscience issues?

• Information about conscience votes
• EMILY's List
• Euthanasia

Information about Conscience Votes

During the last Parliament, there was one conscience vote, on euthanasia in the upper house only.

Conscience votes are not a comprehensive measure of a politician's values. They are usually only held on sensitive questions of life, and do not apply to other important value matters where politicians usually follow their party's line. Nonetheless, conscience votes do show how a politician approaches a significant ethical question, where their sense of values comes from, and what their personal view is on what we believe to be one of the most important questions of all: the protection of human life from conception to natural death.

EMILY's List

EMILY's List is a political network formed to increase the number of women Labor parliamentarians who are willing to support key ‘feminist’ issues, including abortion. It provides financial, political and personal support to Labor women candidates who agree to support the values of EMILY's List.

It is the only network of its kind in Australian politics.

EMILY's List members and candidates must support the principles of equity, diversity, pro-choice, and the provision of equal pay and childcare, both in the community and in Parliament. Many of these are significant issues but it is concerning that membership of such a network dictates a parliamentarian's vote. For example, EMILY's List members consistently support pro-abortion policies, reflecting both their personal beliefs and their membership of the List. Without exception, every Federal ALP parliamentarian named on EMILY's List voted to support the abortion drug RU486 and to permit the cloning of human embryos for destructive research.

Not all female Labor MPs or Senators are EMILY's List members. However, if you want to support candidates who recognise the value of human life from its earliest stages then you need to know if your current representative or local candidate is a member of EMILY's List because List membership will determine her vote on these issues. Click here to find out.

Euthanasia – how did you MLC vote?

What the Parties think

Public Christianity Role for the church // Christian religious education

Justice Alcohol abuse // Homelessness and housing affordability // Charter of rights // Prostitution

Life Abortion and the law // Abortion statistics // Euthanasia

Family Surrogacy // Marriage // Families

Media Classification Violent video games // Sale of x-rated material // Outdoor advertising

Health & Wellbeing Mental Health // Palliative care // Loneliness and Isolation

Indigenous Issues Indigenous Welfare